Finally, the Hunger Games Workout You’ve Been Waiting For

With the right Hunger Games-inspired diet and exercise, you could look like Katniss Everdeen, portrayed here by Jennifer Lawrence., By Murray Close/courtesy of Lionsgate.

Great news for those of you looking to obsessively incorporate The Hunger Gamesinto every aspect of your life: The fine people at DailyBurn have found a way to adapt the Suzanne Collins novel—soon-to-be a wildly successful blockbuster on par with Twilight, if you believe everyone in Hollywood—into a fitness plan, so you can simultaneously slim down and gain the strength to “be an archer like Katniss or a powerhouse like Cato.” After all, nothing says “great opportunity for a tie-in exercise regime” like a young-adult novel about teenagers fighting for survival after the apocalypse. It just makes sense!

The fitness site announced some of its Hunger Games–inspired exercises in a press release that circulated yesterday:

ABS AND CORE

Exercise – Bear Squat

Equipment – none, just your body weight

Description – The bear squat combines a full plank, which is fantastic for the core, and an explosive leg press. Begin in plank then bend your knees and send your hips back over your heels keeping the knees off the floor (spine is flexed and arms are extended). With a powerful push from your legs, extend back out to plank and hold.

LEG STRENGTH

Exercise – Curtsy Squat Side Lunge

Equipment - Dumbbells

Description – To truly develop strong legs that are functional for running, jumping, leaping and carrying heavy loads, you must train them in all directions. Holding heavy dumbbells in each hand begin with feet together. Step out to the side with your right leg, keeping your left leg straight. Hinge forward slightly but keep chest lifted with the dumbbells on either side of your right leg. Push off your right foot and immediately step back and cross behind the left leg, bending both knees into a curtsy squat.

As you can see, the above are just incredibly innovative strength-building techniques of which you’ve never heard. But that’s not where The Hunger Games total-body fitness regime ends! DailyBurn has also tastefully designed an Eat for Survival diet plan, so that, like your favorite fiction heroes, you can feel like you’re calorically struggling for survival too. Recipes include Capital Springtime Soup and Hunger Games Porridge.

Now, go grab your exercise mat, District 2 Custom Water Bottle, and workout clothes; fix your hair in a Katniss-style side braid; and get started. Last person to complete two sets of 20 curtsy squat side lunges has to clean up after Haymitch Abernathy every time he face-dives off a stage or vomits on expensive carpeting.